Could I be pregnant (never thought I'd be asking this)?

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I usually and think 'just POAS woman!' when people start these threads but I wanted to ask a couple of questions first as if I POAS then I will have to tell DP (not going to keep something like that from him) and he will freak out. Also, maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill. Have NC as he knows my NN and if it's nothing then I want to keep my thoughts to myself.

Will preface this by saying I have been very broody in the last few months so that is probably influencing my thoughts. We are absolutely not in a position for me to be preggers atm as I'm unemployed and have only recently graduated so need to build up work history and savings.

The situation is:

• had implant removed four weeks ago (thought it was five when I started writing this post, hence panic, but have rechecked and it's four) and haven't had even a hint of period since

• had unprotected sex two/three days prior to implant removal (have since read sperm can survive up to five days?)

• have constantly had low-level nausea since a week after it was removed (so just over a week, maybe nine days since unprotected sex). What is making me worry is that I am never queasy, ever even when in situations with others who are (and whole group is affected, e.g. something they've seen/done). I haven't thrown up for years and I get queasy maybe once every couple of months from a very long car journey. This time it's been at least every other night (mostly every evening/night) and several times I have felt like I was about to be sick - for me that's a big deal as I never feel like that. I felt so ill during my exercise class this week that I thought I'd have to stop and was seriously thinking about POAS just so I could go to the Dr and ask for something to make it stop, having ruled out pregnancy.

But I have had no other symptoms of pregnancy whatsoever. Have continued to drink (it was my birthday so did get drunk twice) etc., as normal.

I can see me warbling on for ages as I'm a bit worried now. What prompted this post was reading another thread somewhere were people were saying you can be pregnant without all the symptoms? Does anyone have any advice please? I have to be very, very certain it's the right thing to do if I take a test as DP is under a lot of stress right now and ideally, though we both have chatted about children, we wanted to wait for a couple of years.

Ideally I'd like lots of very calm people to come on here and tell me I'm being silly!

FGS POAS woman! . Sadly that is the only way you are goind to find out.

Do you not want to be pregnant?

I would love to be pregnant - DP (and therefore our friends as I moved to live in his area) are a bit older than me and all having babies/trying for babies. Because I'm still unemployed and at home during the day I spend my time when I'm not on MN jobhunting helping my friend with her newborn and I love him :) DP does too, he's great with kids. It's just the wrong time in my career, I think, as I haven't even had my first 'proper' job yet (am early twenties).

The nausea could be your hormones changing due to having the implant removed maybe. I'd say it could take a while for your periods to get back into the proper swing of things and you say you only had the implant removed 4 weeks ago. Bur as tutu says there's only one way to find out right now if your pregnant, and if it's playing on your mind then it could be worth it.

Should add, not 'helping' in the single-woman-interfering sense (had any of those tendencies drummed out by MN), but whenever she asks for a walk/5 mins babysitting so she can do something/company whilst she feeds, then I'm there.

I was just wondering why you had your implant removed - thought you may have been getting ready to try for a baby.

I would say with pregnancy it is impossible to tell if you are or not in the early days unless you do a pregnancy test and tbh it sounds like it may be a bit early for you to do one anyway atm.

Whether you do a test or not won't alter the result i.e if you don't do a test you won't be pregnant, but at least you'll know.

No, it was driving me mad - too many mood swings as I'm a calm person normally :)

Do you have to wait a certain time before you take the test? I've never taken one before (this may also be why I freaked out a little bit... although you're doing a great job of calming me down, I think I just needed to vocalise my worries).

4/5 weeks after unprotected sex is plenty of time for a HPT to be accurate, assuming there'd were no other cases of unprotected sex since. I get nauseous before I have a period sometime, in my experience any hormone surge or change makes me feel I'll so it's prob just your body getting back to normal. If you are pregnant from having sex a few days before implant out I'll be surprised!

No there aren't - we had one vaguely dodgy moment on the contraceptive front a few days ago but the nausea pre-dates this by a few weeks. It's purely the nausea that made me question it in the first place. Like I said in my OP I'm never, ever sick and very rarely nauseous - to be nauseous nearly every day in a row for several weeks made me a bit Then I counted the weeks and got worried.

I think I'll speak to DP tonight and maybe POAS. As long as it's long enough since to show either way then I'll grit my teeth and get on with it. I think he'll be happy if it's negative but I'll know I'll be half sad and half relieved, which is sort of why I haven't brought it up yet.

I've had positive pregnancy tests taken a week after conception, twice. I'd never heard that you needed to wait 5/6 weeks! I think there are some tests specifically marketed that can tell you within a very short time indeed. Anyway, a week in my experience, and that was with Boots own brand two tests for a fiver. At that price, I'd get one today and POAS. You're going to have to at some point... Good luck!

We have a Boots just around the corner. DP just texted to say he's leaving work early... joys of being self-employed on a sunny day so I'll say something after I've plied him with tea and cake when he gets in.

One final question please - I have been reading the NHS site about pregnancy tests and have read elsewhere on MN that you should POAS first thing in the morning (I do love a live POAS thread normally ) but does it matter? NHS doesn't say anything on that front.

superdrug own brand tests are good for early results, it really needs to be about 2 weeks after conception though to show any result. I tested at 3 weeks 6 days after af (so around 1 week 6 days after conception) and there was the slightest line. a week later i got a very dark line.

with both dd and ds i tested at 6 weeks (so around 4 weeks after conception) and had very dark lines with them.

morning is normally better as you HCG is more concentrated. at this early stage it would be better to wait till morning tbh.

Thanks. If I am it will be four weeks tomorrow so I'll wait until the morning.

Couldn't wait so I did it ten minutes ago. Was negative so we're treating it as negative and then if I still feel sick next week will do another next weekend to make doubly sure.

It will only have been from that one time four weeks ago if I take the nausea as a symptom so the test (ClearBlue) should have picked it up. Exact counting makes it 25 days since the implant was removed and 27.5 days since we had unprotected sex.

It has made me realise how little reliable information there is on the Internet about implants - all I could find were gossip sites with people touting rumours about 'friends' who had got pregnant on the implant.

i had a miscarriage with the implant in, but i also fell pregnant with dd while on the pill, so think my body is a bit weird with contraception tbh.